skadamaton Hacker News • Recommends
On “The HARC First Year Report”
Highly recommend Bret's 2 talks for context: 1 Seeing Spaces: link to this video 2 Humane Representation of Thought: link
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Bret Victor - Seeing Spaces
Colin McDonnell
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- Recommended by 3 people: 3 on Hacker News.
- A classic. People kept recommending it from 2017 to 2023.
- Presented by Bret Victor
- An opinion. It argues one side of a question engineers disagree on.
Intermediate. Assumes working knowledge.
20K views11 years ago3 recommendations
Software designTools and practiceDeveloper productivity
Bret Victor proposes a new kind of maker space designed to help creators see inside, across time, and across possibilities of their projects.
Read the poster: worrydream.com/SeeingSpaces What if we designed a new kind of "maker space" -- a space that isn't just for putting pieces together, but also for seeing and understanding a project's behavior in powerful ways? - seeing inside - seeing across time - seeing across possibilities "I think people need to work in a space that moves them away from the kinds of non-scientific thinking that you do when you can't see what you're doing -- moves them away from blindly following recipes, from superstitions and rules of thumb -- and moves them towards deeply understanding what they're doing, inventing new things, discovering new things, contributing back to the global pool of human knowledge." Presented at the EG conference on May 2, 2014. Art by David Hellman.Why it's here
3 people recommend thisWhat people say. Highly recommended as an inspiring and thought-provoking talk on designing specialized tools and environments to deeply understand and reason about systems.
skadamaton Hacker News • Recommends
On “Ask HN: Why does visual programming suck?”
It's going to be entirely different I feel. Instead of manipulating graphics on a flat screen, focus will probably be on manipulating physical objects on a table / in a room. Watch his 2 talks that highlight the thinking and inspiration behind the RealTalk project: link to this video link
mitchtbaumon Hacker News • Recommends
On “Ask HN: What are some of the best technical talks you've heard?”
on one level, yes on another, they're down right scary and overwhelming, or at least dumbfounding and perplexing ..thinking specifically about The Humane Representation of Thought link I had to stop it half way through.. :-/ see also Seeing Spaces link to this video and Media for Thinking the Unthinkable link
yesenadamon Hacker News • Recommends
On “Ask HN: Has anyone fully attempted Bret Victor's vision?”
For the people asking who is Bret Victor: When "What are your favourite tech talks of all time?" is asked on HN, he gets more mentions than anyone else, usually. Some of his talks: Inventing on Principle link The Future of Programming link The Humane Representation of Thought link Media for Thinking the Unthinkable link Seeing Spaces link to this video Drawing Dynamic Visualizations link link
fao_on Hacker News • Mentions
On “Ergonomics of the Symbolics Lisp Machine (2012)”
Mm. I've been wondering recently why is it that Programmers don't have more specialized tools (Which incidentally reminds me of this lecture: Bret Victor -- Seeing Spaces link to this video ). It's interesting to think that high-performance traders have an entire market dedicated to specialized computer interfaces, terminals, etc. all focused on improving their productivity and ability to reason about the stock exchange. link As the top poster says about the Bloomberg terminals: ""1. You have to have a Bloomberg keyboard to work in finance. It's not even a question. It's a COGS for anybody who wants to work in finance or trading.""
skadamaton Hacker News • Mentions
On “Show HN: Sava OS – A desktop interface for your web browser”
This is pretty neat! I wish web browsers on Mac could span to 2-3 monitors because then you could really build a great spatial environment for web browsing. link to this video